Kara Yang is from Beijing, China and began studying at BYU in the fall of 2005. She graduated in 2009 with a BS in Mathematics. She received a BYU half-tuition scholarship and was on the international student honor roll. Kara joined IDeA Labs in the Summer of 2007 and was involved in a data mining project. Kara moved to Boston where her husband is a graduate student at MIT and she is preparing to apply for graduate school.